Lechery
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Lechery forbidden[edit]
"We, verily, have forbidden you lechery, and not that which is conducive to fidelity. Have ye clung unto the promptings of your nature, and cast behind your backs the statutes of God? Fear ye God, and be not of the foolish."
- (Bahá'u'lláh, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 49)
""Lechery" is clearly forbidden by Bahá'u'lláh (see "Epistle to the Son of the Wolf", p. 49) and Shoghi Effendi has stated that a "chaste and holy life", according to the teachings of the Faith, implies a condemnation of "all manner" of "sexual vices"(See "Advent of Divine Justice", p. 25.).
"As to the contents of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, one of the provisions of that Most Holy Book is "not to indulge one's passions" (see "Synopsis and Codification of the Laws and Ordinances of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas", p. 50)."
- (From a letter dated 8 June 1982 written on behalf of the Universal House of Justice to an individual believer, in Chaste and Holy Life, A, no. 37)
